How to add a color to an empty direrectory

[masterninja2]

I'm not skilled with defining diff colors to diff kind of files, so pls help me

I have found out how to define a color to diff files allright
Now I have also managed to color the directories in an special color, but a would like the empty ones to have a special color and the not empty ones with another color.
How to that ?

brgds Masterninja2

[Horst.Epp]

One of many possible ways.
Set the Directory Attribute under Advanced
In the Plugins tab add the tc plugin
and set the Size Property Value to = 0 Bytes.

For non-empty dirs set the Size Property Value to > 0 Bytes
But i would not make colors for all non-empty dirs, thats a least for me useless.

[masterninja2]

Seems not to work

brgds
Masterninja2

[LonerD]

and set the Size Property Value to = 0 Bytes.

Non-empty directories can contain another directories or 0 bytes files.

The best solution - emptycheck plugin

[Horst.Epp]

2LonerD
Thats true but the poster has to be carefull if there are very deep trees to check
as this may delay the coloring on every dir change.
There is another plugin (EmptyWDX) which allows to set the recurse level for the check.

Pesrsonaly I no longer use any coloring for empty dirs
as the Everything integration shows a size which is enough for me.

[Fla$her]

but the poster has to be carefull if there are very deep trees to check

And why should the plugins authors check some depth, if the first level is enough?
Once again: a poster is a placard/banner/billboard, not the post's author (especially a starting one).

Pesrsonaly I no longer use any coloring for empty dirs
as the Everything integration shows a size which is enough for me.

Everything is unreliable in terms of special settings with volume exceptions (for example, flash drives or slow drives).
And, of course, the size of the folder cannot be compared with the presence of something in it. These are different entities.
It would be possible to use ed:empty: if the current directory was taken into account, but even in this case there would be problems with short folder names.

[Hacker]

Fla$her,

a poster is a placard/banner/billboard, not the post's author (especially a starting one)

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/poster

HTH
Roman

[Fla$her]

2Hacker
Cambridge. Curious. Will keep in mind. )

[Hacker]

Fla$her,
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/poster
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poster

HTH
Roman

[mrle]

DirSizeCalc.wdx - https://totalcmd.net/plugring/dirsizecalc.html

wincmd.ini:

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[Colors]
ColorFilter1=>DirEmpty
ColorFilter1Color=11434329
[Searches]
DirEmpty_SearchFlags=0|002002000020|||||||||0000|
DirEmpty_plugin=dirsizecalc.Empty = Yes

[Fla$her]

2mrle
The above suggested emptycheck is faster.